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Of or pertaining to lumbago.

Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.

A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.

of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

A South African lemur (Galago maholi), having very large ears. [Written also moholi.]

ian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. And shrieks like mandrak…

The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus.)

The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ. Mask house, a house for masquerades. [Obs.]

kill in the use of the sword; hence, figuratively, to match one's abilities against an antagonist's.

A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.

e blue melilot (Melilotus cærulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.

intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the me…

A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead.

o cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

The sunfish (Orthagoriscus, or Mola). [Written also molebat.]

] -- Moon month, a lunar month. -- Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See Medic. -- Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.